{"id":115661,"date":"2025-09-03T02:20:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T02:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/115661\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T02:20:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T02:20:08","slug":"extension-notes-connor-mcdavid-kempe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/115661\/","title":{"rendered":"Extension Notes: Connor, McDavid, Kempe"},"content":{"rendered":"

Unlike what transpired between the Winnipeg Jets and his former teammate, Nikolaj Ehlers<\/a>, there\u2019s more optimism in Manitoba that winger Kyle Connor<\/a> will eventually sign a long-term extension to remain with the Jets.\u00a0Unfortunately, extension negotiations between Connor and Winnipeg have been quiet this summer, as Frank Seravalli reported<\/a> a few weeks ago.<\/p>\n

Still, that\u2019s expected to change, as David Pagnotta of The Fourth Period reported<\/a> today that extension talks could begin as early as this week, and a baseline salary has already been set. Pagnotta believes that Connor will earn at least $10MM a year on his next contract, and it will likely be on a longer-term deal.<\/p>\n

That salary would quickly become the highest on the Jets, beating out the $8.5MM AAVs for Mark Scheifele<\/a> and Connor Hellebuyck<\/a>. Regardless, it should be a more than palatable price for Winnipeg, given that Connor has been a higher-than-a-point-per-game player for the last five years, while crossing the 90-point plateau twice. Meanwhile, even at a record-setting salary for the team, Connor would only be the fifth-highest-paid winger in the league.<\/p>\n

Other extension notes:<\/p>\n

Although some noise was made at Team Canada\u2019s Olympic orientation camp<\/a> regarding Connor McDavid<\/a>\u2019s extension talks with the Edmonton Oilers, not much was made about the potential length of a new contract. McDavid signed a max-term eight-year contract with the Oilers back in 2017, but Pagnotta doesn\u2019t believe that\u2019ll be the case this time around. He asserts that the industry belief is that McDavid will prioritize a three-to-five-year deal, with the idea that a five-year deal would cost the Oilers approximately $17MM a year. Should McDavid\u2019s camp push the term lower, his salary could reach the $20MM per season mark.
\nPlaying out the final year of one of the team-friendliest contracts in the league, Adrian Kempe<\/a> of the Los Angeles Kings is eligible for an extension. Given that the Kings could be in the final year<\/a> with franchise legend An\u017ee Kopitar<\/a>, Los Angeles should be prioritizing Kempe\u2019s extension. In a minor update on the negotiations, Pagnotta notes that Kempe is seeking an eight-year, $80MM extension, while the Kings have countered with an eight-year, $72MM offer. Given that the two sides are only $1MM apart on AAV, it should be a bridgeable gap, meaning an agreement shouldn\u2019t be too far away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Unlike what transpired between the Winnipeg Jets and his former teammate, Nikolaj Ehlers, there\u2019s more optimism in Manitoba…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":115662,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[9056,49,48,12428,453,454,763,448,82,449],"class_list":["post-115661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-adrian-kempe","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-connor-mcdavid","tag-edmonton-oilers","tag-kyle-connor","tag-los-angeles-kings","tag-nhl","tag-sports","tag-winnipeg-jets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}